NE Kentucky News

There were 2,165 white students enrolled in Fleming County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.1% increase from the 2,142 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Fleming County welcomed a total of 2,325 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 93.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Fleming County, Fleming County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 636 students, making up 92.7% of the school's total student body.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Ewing Elementary School	97%	368
Simons Middle School	91.9%	346
Fleming County High School	92.7%	686
Flemingsburg Elementary School	90.2%	571
E. P. Ward Elementary School	95.7%	185
Hillsboro Elementary School	95.9%	169